OK – I’ve been reading articles lately about the 4 doctors and nurses in New Orleans being charged with murder for euthenizing 3 patients after Hurriance Katrina struck. I’m alway reluctant to get to political because I don’t trust the media to be 100% accurate and there’s always a chance information is missing. But based on what I’ve read so far, I’m getting annoyed and need to throw in my two cents worth.<\/p>\n
Let’s look at the conditions: A catastrophic hurricane hits and floods the area surrounding the hospital. For four days, there is no electricity, no clean running water, no air-conditioning, temperatures inside consistently hovering over 100 degrees, extreme humidity, looters and crime outside the front doors, no signs of help\/rescue, and\u00a0three critical older people ranging in age from lower 60’s to 90’s.<\/p>\n
The doctor\/nurses injected three of those older patients in horrible medical condition with a mix of morphine and some other drug that put them out of their misery. Now they’re being charged with murder.<\/p>\n
MURDER!<\/p>\n
In fact, Louisiana’s Attorney General, Charles C. Foti, is quoted as saying “We’re talking about people that pretended that maybe they were God.”<\/p>\n
I have to be honest, if I was there, even as the 100% healthy 35 year-old that I am, I’d have been begging for that drug cocktail. These folks were terminally ill and surrounded by deplorable conditions with no signs of imminent rescue. I think what the doctors and nurses did for those three suffering people should be considered compassion – not murder. If my 90 year old parents (or grandparents) were one of the patients, I’d be thanking the doctors\/nurses for not making\u00a0them suffer any more than they had to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Think about it. Yesterday we were all miserable because it was humid and in the 90’s in Boston. Imagine it hotter, more humid, and without any circulating air, electricity or running water. That would be what it was like at the hospital….for four straight days. Now imagine having a terminal illness while you’re at it.<\/p>\n
I just can’t imagine.<\/p>\n
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